Millennia of Time, Metal Element Formation

"You brat, your ambitions are quite grand. But achieving this will be far too difficult," Duobao said.

"It is very difficult. However, I've already solved many of the difficult parts. What I currently lack is an energy capable of replacing the essence blood of all divine beasts. Only then can I use the acupoint diagrams of the various divine beasts to evolve all kinds of divine beasts and employ their innate divine abilities," Chen Yang said gravely.

"This will be difficult. After all, there are countless divine beasts in the Primordial World. Finding an energy that can replace the essence blood of every divine beast truly won't be easy. But thinking it over carefully, there are three types of energy that meet these requirements. First: chaos energy. It can evolve all things, so it might work. However, chaos energy is not something someone at your level can come into contact with, much less control.

Second: chaos essence blood. The essence blood of Chaos Demon Gods contains chaotic properties and might also replace the essence blood of various divine beasts.

Third: Human Clan essence blood. After all, the Human Clan possesses extremely strong reproductive and inclusive qualities. Many humans carry the bloodlines of numerous races within them. If you can find a human whose body contains the fused essence blood of various races and purify that bloodline, it may not be impossible." Duobao was indeed knowledgeable, giving Chen Yang many suggestions in a short time.

Chen Yang fell into thought upon hearing this. "It's worth trying."

"Enough... let's set aside how your Battle Formation will evolve for now. Think about your cultivation first. For the past thousand years, you've either been copying books or studying divine abilities. You've practically forgotten to cultivate. You're neglecting your proper duties," Duobao reprimanded him.

Chen Yang looked embarrassed. "Master... you know the peculiarities of my Body-Forged Formation. As long as my physical body is strong enough, I can endlessly inscribe formations to raise my cultivation and break through my current realm. But my physical body is currently stuck at the fifth level of the fifth turn of the Nine-Turn Profound Art. I simply do not meet the conditions to inscribe another formation."

"Body cultivation is powerful, but it is ultimately slow. Enough. Hurry and cultivate your body. Strive to break through to Great Luo as soon as possible. Otherwise, don't even think about leaving Golden Ao Island to run around," Duobao said.

What else could Chen Yang say? He could only nod.

After learning of the Human Pool's effects, Chen Yang had desperately wanted to visit the Human Clan.

For safety's sake, Chen Yang had even tried to persuade someone to lead the way.

Not long ago, Chen Yang had sought out Wuyun Immortal and Golden-Spirit Holy Mother.

Golden-Spirit Holy Mother had originally planned to visit the Human Clan, and Chen Yang had wanted to go with her. Unfortunately, Duobao found out and suppressed Chen Yang.

Chen Yang shook his head. "Master, I understand. I'll go to Three Xiao Peak and cultivate together with Aunt-Master Yunxiao."

Duobao waved his whisk. "Go on, go on..."

Ever since Jie Sect gained thirty-six core disciple positions, many people had wanted to obtain the title of core disciple. However, Tongtian had said nothing, so everyone could only wait.

The Three Xiao had obtained core disciple positions early on. Their treatment afterward allowed them to enter the inner region of Golden Ao Island and receive a dedicated cultivation ground.

Three Xiao Peak was the Three Xiao's residence, located within Golden Ao Island. Chen Yang often went there to cultivate together with Yunxiao.

After all, the Five Elements generated one another, while yin and yang circulated in turn. This greatly benefited both Chen Yang and Yunxiao.

Yunxiao relied on Chen Yang's high-quality Five Elements to improve the quality of the condensed Five Elements within her body. Chen Yang, meanwhile, relied on the circulation of the Five Elements to temper his physical body.

Otherwise, Chen Yang could not have cultivated from the first level of the fifth turn of the Nine-Turn Profound Art to the fifth level in only a thousand years.

In the blink of an eye, another thousand years passed.

Over those thousand years, Chen Yang had mostly cultivated together with Yunxiao. Otherwise, he read countless books, comprehended their insights, turned them into his own foundation, perfected the Battle Formation, and refined many secret arts.

After all, Chen Yang possessed a treasure that enhanced wisdom. It would have been far too wasteful not to use it. His many inspirations and divine ability concepts brought from Earth could all be created through wisdom, the Heavenly Evolution Pearl, and countless Primordial World Dao arts...

It could be said that Chen Yang lacked neither creativity nor wisdom nor the ability to evolve things. What he lacked was sufficient knowledge and foundation. Thus, the Scripture Library had become one of Chen Yang's regular haunts.

That day, Chen Yang and Yunxiao finished their joint cultivation. His aura grew increasingly profound. "Finally, the eighth level."

"In merely a thousand years, you've gone from the fifth level of the fifth turn of the Nine-Turn Profound Art to the eighth level. Advancing three levels in all—that is already incredibly fast," Yunxiao said with feeling.

Chen Yang smiled faintly. "It is also thanks to Aunt-Master's help. Even though I have a constant supply of Nine-Nine Return-to-One Pills, refining and tempering them still takes a great deal of time. Aunt-Master cultivated with me, helping me refine the pills and temper my body. That is why I have made such progress today. I have wasted much of Aunt-Master's cultivation time, though."

"It is of no concern. I have already entered the Supreme Unity Profound Immortal Realm. What I need now is accumulation before I can become an Immortal Great Unity," Yunxiao said.

Chen Yang nodded and said nothing further. Over the past thousand years, Chen Yang had relied on the Nine-Nine Return-to-One Alchemy Formation and the countless spiritual herbs he had brought out of the secret realm to refine large batches of Nine-Nine Return-to-One Pills.

The Nine-Nine Return-to-One Pill could accelerate the cultivation of the Nine-Turn Profound Art. Relying on batch after batch of pills, Chen Yang accelerated his cultivation of the Nine-Turn Profound Art. However, consuming pills also required time for tempering. Fortunately, he had the Fire Element Formation and could use the Great Sun True Fire to temper the pills, accelerating their absorption.

However, tempering and digesting the pills still required time. At such times, Yunxiao helped Chen Yang. Through their joint cultivation, she controlled the Great Sun True Fire to help him temper the pills and transform them into refined medicinal potency for Chen Yang to use in cultivating the Nine-Turn Profound Art.

Now that his physical body had advanced further, he had also moved another step closer to the Daluo Realm.

Soon, Chen Yang and Yunxiao arrived at a pavilion on Three Xiao Peak, sipping Enlightenment Tea as they chatted.

However, Bixiao suddenly barged in. "This is bad, this is bad... Master has introduced new rules again. We're in trouble this time..."

Chen Yang looked at Bixiao and stopped her. "What happened? What major event took place?"

Yunxiao was also puzzled. "Yes, while we were in seclusion, did Master send out any information?"

"Not long ago, Master announced new rules for Jie Sect disciples. He added challenge rules and promotion rules. Outer disciples can challenge core disciples, core disciples can challenge personal disciples, and personal disciples can challenge direct disciples. As long as they win their challenge, they can obtain the corresponding disciple status. Now, many outer disciples are eyeing us like tigers," Qiongxiao said helplessly.

Bixiao nodded as well, looking somewhat troubled. "We had barely become core disciples when Master announced these promotion rules. We may not be able to keep our core disciple positions."

At those words, both Chen Yang and Yunxiao showed astonishment.

Yunxiao was shocked by the challenge rules. After all, once such rules were implemented, the first people to be challenged would undoubtedly be core disciples like them.

Chen Yang, meanwhile, was stunned by how quickly the challenge system had been implemented.

A thousand years ago, Chen Yang had told Duobao about these challenge rules and promotion rules.

He had thought this system had no chance of being implemented. After all, the system brought both benefits and drawbacks to Jie Sect.

The benefit was that it would create a strong atmosphere of competition within Jie Sect, making everyone cultivate diligently. In a short time, many disciples could improve their cultivation, keeping Jie Sect disciples in a powerful state.

The drawback was that it would weaken the atmosphere of unity within Jie Sect. The current Jie Sect disciples looked like one family.

But once conflicts of interest truly emerged, the affection between them would gradually fade away.

With both advantages and disadvantages, Chen Yang had thought this plan would be difficult to implement.

Who would have thought that Tongtian would approve it after only a few thousand years?

In the blink of an eye, several thousand more years passed.

The competitive atmosphere within Jie Sect had grown increasingly intense.

Since Jie Sect announced the challenge system and promotion system, many outer disciples had become restless.

Each of them longed to fight and challenge others, becoming core disciples or personal disciples.

After all, different positions came with different treatment.

Not long ago, Tongtian sent out word that he would imitate the previous Three Sects Tournament.

All Jie Sect outer disciples would be sent into a special secret realm to fight.

After the battles, the thirty-three disciples who remained would become the remaining thirty-three core disciples.

For this reason, Jie Sect disciples cultivated diligently, striving to win core disciple positions.

The Three Xiao, who had occupied three core disciple positions early on, were now also cultivating diligently.

Yunxiao cultivated diligently, hoping to grow stronger, challenge Long-Eared Dingguang Immortal, and ultimately become one of the personal disciples.

For this reason, Yunxiao cultivated together with Chen Yang for several thousand years, finally breaking through to become a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

Afterward, she also cultivated the Nine-Turn Profound Art and tempered her physical body to the fourth turn.

Beyond that, she cultivated numerous divine abilities and killing techniques.

Compared with her, Qiongxiao and Bixiao had no such options.

No matter how diligently they cultivated, they would ultimately find it difficult to defeat the many challengers.

After all, among Jie Sect's outer disciples, there were far too many whose aptitude was better than theirs, whose cultivation was stronger than theirs, and who cultivated even more diligently than they did.

Thus, it was difficult for the two of them to withstand the challenges of the many outer disciples.

Beyond that, after cultivating for several thousand years, Chen Yang had also advanced further.

The Nine-Turn Profound Art had reached the peak of the ninth level of the fifth turn, with only the final transformation remaining incomplete.

Even so, the strength of Chen Yang's physical body was enough for him to inscribe another formation.

The formation Chen Yang inscribed this time was naturally the Metal Element Formation.

At that moment, within Dabao Peak, Chen Yang's aura rose and fell as sharp golden energy spread through his body.

That piercing aura was Metal Element energy. It contained the Geng Metal energy of the Bodhi Seed as well as the Metal Element aura of the Merit Golden Lotus.

Duobao observed Chen Yang's changes and nodded with satisfaction. "The Metal Element Formation has also been completed. The remaining wood and water will be relatively simple."

That was right. Chen Yang had now inscribed the Metal Element Formation within his lungs.

With every breath, spiritual energy entered his lungs and transformed into sharp Metal Element energy, flowing through his lungs and carrying away many impurities.

However, after all these years of cultivation, there were already very few impurities left within Chen Yang's body.

He only exhaled a little gray mist before his lungs were completely tempered.

Now that the fire, earth, and metal elements within his body had been completed, the world of his Middle Dantian became increasingly perfect.